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project on external drive
Hello to all you editors.
I have my premiere cs3 project on an external drive that I work on my laptop. my projects usually are about an hour long. In my project “scratch disk” settings are all set to same as project which is on the external drive. when I’m done cutting, slicing and adding transitions, then I unplug the external hard drive from laptop and plug it in to my desktop.
Here’s The Problem:
Mu project opens fine. But when I hit the space bar to preview, it doesn’t play somooth and video is jerky….thank you in advance for trying to help..
Kandahar.
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8 Replies
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[zhar kandahar] “it doesn’t play somooth and video is jerky….”
Is there a red “needs rendered” bar above the video in the timeline?
Also defrag the external drive. -
USB drive? Good for backup, nothing else.
Harm Millaard
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As Harm suggests, your external hard drive may not have the required throughput for smooth playback.
Cheers
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“Is there a red “needs rendered” bar above the video in the timeline?
Also defrag the external drive. ”no Mike no red line on the whole video.
and the external drive is new and I have no problem playing back from it in other circumstances.It’s just something that is not transfering over from the laptop to the desktop. and I don’t know what or why that is.
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Eddie
I don’t think it’s the hard drive. cause I am on other projects on that drive without any problem.
the exact problem is that the CTI stops. meaning the timeline screen stops scroling.
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OK, you have no problem then. Solved.
Harm Millaard
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we use external USB drives for Premiere projects with no major problems, can lay off to DV tape with smooth playback.
Sometimes when we move a drive from one computer to another, the audio files want to conform again – I think this has to do with drive letters.
Make sure your playback settings are correct from one machine to another. For example, if you have playback set to external DV device, but none is connected, that can make the timeline not play.
Also, if indeed the audio is conforming when you flop to another machine, the video may stutter until all the files are done processing. -
Hello Mike.
Can you please tell me where exactly are those play settings that you are talking about? and can you please explain the “conforming audio” part?
Your explanation sounds right to me, I’m just not clear about where to look for those things you mentioned.
thank you.
Knadahar.
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